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#171 Unread post by **sv-wolf** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:31 am

A bit of moonlighting?
(Wouldn't do it myself, but y'know, just trying to be helpful, here.)
Move to somewhere cheaper/with a longer riding season?
Get a new job? Join a union? Get militant!
Give up... oh! I don't know! ...something (other than the bike)!
Start a noodlenoggin appeal fund.
Take out insurance on a distant elderly relative?
Do the lottery?

Hmmmm! Do you hear noises like the bottoms of barrels being scraped here.

Sounds like you are caught in a pretty intractable position there, noodle - for now. Still, you seem to be walking the family tightrope well enough.

Here's to an unexpected, positive resolution to your problems - and some milder weather (bike or no bike). (I won't distress you by telling you what a wonderful spring-like day it is over here in the southern UK today.)

Take care.

noodlenoggin · Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:46 am

Thank you, Richard, for all of your possible solutions. I plan to devote as much time to them as they deserve.

I'm just going to take a "wait and see" attitude...kind of the same as I always do.

Meanwhile, it's 10 degrees this morning. (That's -12C degrees) There's fresh ice on the roads. The wind chill is -4 degrees. (-20C degrees) We have 1 to 3 inches (3 to 8cm) of snow forecast today -- which is so normal here that it's beneath mention, really. We really won't even start to see snow melting until April sometime.

So what I'm saying is that NOBODY'S riding right now around here. Come spring, when I start to see people out on their bikes, that's when it gets really hard for me if the bike's staying off the road.

AZRider · #173 Unread post by **AZRider** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:51 pm

You would only have to shovel 20 driveways.

Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:20 pm

AZRider wrote:You would only have to shovel 20 driveways.

noodlenoggin · Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:47 am

AZRider wrote:You would only have to shovel 20 driveways.

AZRider · #176 Unread post by **AZRider** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:43 pm

I am just trying to help.

noodlenoggin · Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:27 am

More of the Same

I think I gave away my rights to ride my bike this year. We just bought a house, and we got more money at closing than we thought. We were going to insure the bike, and buy a new dinner table, and a whole truckload of home improvement stuff, and have some savings.

Then we realized we could pay off our credit card. The way I feel is that any "savings" we have is false if we have outstanding debt. So knowing full well that it included the money to get my bike on the road this year...I made the decision to send $3,000+ to the credit card company and pay it off. It feels good...and it completely feels terrible.

I'm still holding out hope that over the next couple of months I can come up with the $250 or so that it'll take to get the bike going. It's a slim hope, as I think any extra $10's and $12's that show up are going to go for paint, or grass seed, or light fixtures, or something housey.

But I can still look at my bike, anyway. Yup, I can see it sitting there. Every. Single. Day.

Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:03 am

OK...instead of shovelling snow, it will soon be time to mow lawns. You'd only have to mow about 8 or 10 lawns to make the insurance money.

noodlenoggin · Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:58 am

blues2cruise wrote:OK...instead of shovelling snow, it will soon be time to mow lawns. You'd only have to mow about 8 or 10 lawns to make the insurance money.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...you AND the horse ya rode in on!!

Nibblet99 · Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:06 pm

Isn't cleaning windscreens at traffic lights better $ per hour on the other side of the pond?